Going away to college is not for everyone. There are good reasons why a student might choose to live at home and attend a local school. Money, finding stability while changes are occurring, and accepting responsibility are three to consider. Money is likely to be most important. Not only is tuition more expensive, but extra money is needed for room and board. Whether room and board is a dorm or an apartment, the expense is great. Most students never stop to consider that the money that could be saved from room and board may be better spent in future years on graduate school, which is likely to be more important in their careers. Going to school is a time of many changes anyway, without adding the pressure of a new city or even a new state. Finding stability will be hard enough, without going from home to a dorm. Starting college could be an emotional time for some, and the security of their home and family might make everything easier. When students decide to go away to school, sometimes because their friends are going away, or maybe because the school is their parents’ alma mater, something that all need to decide is whether or not they can accept the responsibility of a completely new way of life. Everyone feels as if they are ready for total independence when they decide to go away to college, but is breaking away when they are just beginning to set their futures a good idea? Going away to school may be the right road for some, but those who feel that they are not ready might start looking to a future that is just around the corner.

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Going to College is a choice that everyone has. I think that College is for everyone because everyone in this world has a right to a good education. I know that good education will improve my chances of having a good job and a higher wage. But on the other hand, College is not free and mostly it is expensive. We have to pay for every semester, for the books and for some student loans and some students do not want to carry big responsibilities like getting into dept or paying loans so instead of going to College they just seek help from a master craft man. A Master craft man gives you a job and share his knowledge to you straightly to the point and without consuming a lot of time. There is also a chance of being successful like a master craft man even if you don’t go to College especially if you have better learning at a trade. But even though College is not free and it cost a lot, but I think everyone should at least try going to college because everything that you spend for College will get back to you ‘cause College will afford us more opportunity to make money for the reason that most of the highest paying jobs require a college degree. And knowing you earn a degree will undoubtedly give a lifetime of pride...

...recently encouraged students to pursue at least one year of college after graduating high school. Our whole school system relies on previous education to get to the next. Each level of education has a purpose and that is to prepare them for the next level. After grade school comes middle school, after middle school comes high school, and after high school comes college, but what comes after college? With the previous pattern, the next level aftercollege would be a career, but is this necessarily true? Is this the only path students have? Many students end up attending a four-year college because they feel like they are suppose and this often results in students not having a proper career goal. When this happens, they often get confused and lost in all the academic chaos. Even when students do have a career goal, they are sometimes encouraged to go into colleges that do not fully provide the education they need for their specific career. Although attending a four-year college and obtaining a degree is desired by many, students should be encouraged to attend schools based on their career choices, not by society’s standards.
Before students are encouraged to attend a four-year college, they should think about their educational goals and what they want to obtain from college. Many students today will end up attending a four-year college...

...high-achieving high-school seniors in the bottom quarter of family income went to one of the 238 most selective colleges, compared with 78 percent of students from the top quarter (Markell). Certainly, these numbers show that students that come from low income families aren’t getting the opportunities that they deserve. With college costs going nowhere but up, students from low-income families face tough decisions. Some students choose to attend communitycollege while some make the decision to take out additional loans. There are also those who choose to drop out because they can no longer sustain the cost of college. Those who don’t have the money to go to a selective college are often not reaching their full potential. Therefore, college cost should be lowered so that more people can have the opportunity to get higher education.
Such a push is needed; firstly, due to the continuous rise in tuition, higher education is becoming less and less affordable for low-income students. According to the Journal of College Admission, from 1982 to 2007, college tuition and fees increased by 439 percent, while median family income increased by 147 percent. Last year, the net cost at four-year public universities amounted to 28 percent of median family income, while a four-year private college or university consumed 76 percent of median family income...

...Section 2
12 September 2013
Textual Analysis 1
Should Everyone Attend College?
In Charles Murray’s work “Are Too Many People Going to College”, first published in The American September 8, 2008, he asks that very vital question: Are too many attending college? To fully grasp what is meant by this question one must take into account all major factors of a college education and career opportunities elsewhere. Murray believes that, “To ask whether too many people are going to college requires us to think about the importance and nature of liberal education” (222). The author states that the knowledge many students strive to learn in college is something that should already be known. According to Murray, “K-8 are the right years to teach the core knowledge” (224). In other words, Murray is saying that liberal arts should have had a strong foundation starting in elementary school, so by the time one who still needs to pursue college will be able to grasp the harder material. Even so, Murray suggests all people who have the academic ability should not try to get a liberal arts college education. Many people who have the intelligence to understand the material presented to them, may not enjoy actually doing the work. (227) Another valid point Murray brings up is the social expectation and status that comes with a college education....

...times I don’t think college is for me, I know I can achieve anything I set my mind to. In less than three years I will have a whole new life started for myself, all because I made it possible for myself to receive a college degree and start the perfect life full of success, money and happiness.
Throughout W.J Reeves “College Isn’t For Everyone”, he point outs many topics that I believe effects me personally but also my peers. Attendance, happens to be one of them. If you don’t give your classes the time needed, you begin to slack in every way possible. “After four years, the bad habits of not being on time and attending sporadically have become second nature. Such habits are unlikely to make for a very productive worker”. In all honesty, this is one of the main things that I have problems with, because of health issues and the thirty minute drive to class sometimes I believe it isn’t worth it. But almost 99% of the time it is worth it, for all I know missing a class could end in my failing the class cause I missed certain notes or a quiz. With that in mind, referring back to “College Isn’t For Everyone” Reeves says “It is hard to be a productive worker if one appears occasionally, yet token appearances, sometime just cameos, are tolerated in college”. I believe if I make the effort to not miss class then I’m not wasting my education or money, I’m making it possible for the...

...College isn’t for everyone
Nowadays it’s highly encouraged, and even expected in some cases, for all high school student to go to college and be “productive citizens” in today’s bustling society. Some ideas that are lost on all but a few people are that not all people are cut out for college, and my peers and I need blue collar workers to survive. If everybody goes to college and gets all these fancy degrees such as a doctorate in Psychology or a masters in Pediatrics, then who is left to be the plumber that you call when anything in the bathroom goes wrong? If everyone is expected to go to college and everyone does, then where will we get our factory workers, our fast food restaurant workers, and our everyday grocers? I don’t see how it could be practical for everyone to go to college.
Up until about fifteen years ago if you had a college degree you were set for life. If you had a college degree it meant that you were extraordinary and that you pushed yourself harder to succeed in life. If you had a college degree you were guaranteed a job in the real world when you stepped out after graduation. A college diploma meant something more than it does now. Now, having a diploma in your hand when you walk to that first interview after you graduate means close to nothing. Because...

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Abigail Lambke
English 150
April 25, 2012
Should College Be for Everyone
What is the purpose to be a student in college? Getting into university regarded as the best option after graduating from high school. But not everyone has ability to finish up four-year course of college. Even graduated from university, it doesn’t mean the nice job and perfect income. “Each decade, 30 million graduate from high school but only 6 million receive a college degree.”(Buffenbarger) Part of them can not be accepted by college, and others drop out half way of university. Even though graduated from university, the number of graduated students is over the satisfaction of society， which means there are no enough vacations to offer to graduates. If college is for everyone, the education level of society will upgrade. However, over number of graduates will place a huge burden on society because of the increasing percentage of unemployment and also cause several negative effects.
There are several reasons for getting into college for almost people. From almost people’s view, getting into the university is serviced for making money in the future. “After World War II, the United States economy promised middle-class jobs to high school graduates. As late as the 1970s, more than 70 percent of middle-class jobs still required only high...

...November 6, 2013
Arnold Clay
ENC1101
Is College for Everyone?: Comparative Rhetorical Analysis
Since the first GI Bill was passed after World War II universities have been steadily increasing. Currently there are more than 4000 college like institutions in the United States. Public policy has been making higher education more reachable for example by creating federal student loan programs so everyone has a chance to attendcollege. But recently we have seen the cost of a four year degree drastically increase because Americans are seeing college as an obligation. “On “Real Education”” Robert T. Perry argues that we need more university and community college graduates. “Is College for Everyone” Pharinet is arguing that college is not for everyone. He states that there is too many students enrolled in school that don’t belong there. Roberts’s essay “On “Real Education”” is more persuasive because, not only did his writing appear on InsideHigherEd.com making him a more credible author but also because he argues his stance on college is for everyone using statistics and a believable explanation to back them up.
The US Department of Labor has reported that America needs more college graduates to keep up with all the other nations in the global economy. Robert states that by the...

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